Notes of Dissent: Lessons from a Family Volvo
I’ve experienced my father’s affection for censorship in many places, but none more so than in our family car. It was an ancient, burgundy Volvo whose speakers had been so worn down that my father once...
View ArticleThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Vulture profiles the Second Shelf, a bookstore dedicated to changing how we talk about rare books by women. The New Yorker unpacks the fight to landmark the Strand, a landmark bookstore in New York...
View ArticleThis Week in Indie Bookstores
Sonoma County, California’s oldest bookstore is celebrating forty-seven years in business. A London bookstore had to move down the road—and enlisted a bucket brigade of local volunteers to help. This...
View ArticleDrawing in Circles
I’ve been drawing mazes for about three years. A maze is a complicated story, because the audience knows most of its statements will be lies. A good maze makes the truth look like a lie. A good maze...
View ArticleThis Week in Indie Bookstores
A Boston bookstore, facing a big rent hike, has relocated to a red barn on a farm in Lee, MA. Read up on the history of New York City’s Book Row. Canadian booksellers at Russell Books are hoping to...
View ArticleHow Patterns Break: Talking with Linda Bierds
As a poet, Linda Bierds is a rare find. She’s a devoted researcher, a caring teacher, and a transcendent image-maker. Her work draws on ekphrasis, historical personae, scientific thinking, and...
View ArticleDiaspora, Reconstructed
The most I’ve seen of Kashmir is from videos my father took in the ’90s, visiting his birthplace shortly after marrying my mother. My favorite is less than a minute long: a field of yellow flowers, the...
View ArticleThe Space Between Vertebrae
Pain is like vinegar: noxious at first whiff then startlingly ephemeral, evaporating to leave no mark on memory. I have done battle with uncomfortable seats at parties and concerts, in airplanes and...
View ArticleThe Resumes of Identity We Present to Strangers: A Conversation with Dolly...
Life for Nina, the thirty-three-year-old, London-dwelling food writer at the center of Ghosts, Dolly Alderton’s second book and first novel, feels like a metropolitan haunted house. Her father is...
View ArticleA Collection of Hours: Look Here by Ana Kinsella
In the margins of a paper I was reading a few months ago, I recently found a note I had scribbled: “Can’t forgo the passing of normal time/submit to the languor of bar-time. I want to read about the...
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